Thanks for all the suggestions. I made a boot disk USB for debian and am trying that right now. I will report back.
John On Thursday, 12 December 2024 at 08:18:09 UTC Emil Widmann wrote: > MX Linux is pretty solid and debian based > There is a 32 bit build for MX Linux XFCE, > https://mxlinux.org/download-links/ > https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=MX > > fluxbox version should be even lighter > > > dim...@gmail.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2024 um 18:52:05 UTC+1: > >> Debian will most probably work, and it's pretty close to familiar to you >> Ubunty. >> Or perhaps you rather get a distro with an up to date Sage there, >> e.g. Void: https://voidlinux.org/ >> >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 9:41 AM Georgi Guninski <ggun...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > The laptop has 3gb ram. What Linux distribution would people >> recommend? I see that Debian supports 32bit still. >> > >> > I don't know the answer, but you may consider trying Debian >> > with some lightweight window manager like XFCE or even possibly >> > no X, only console. >> > IMHO the bottleneck is not 32bit, but only 3GB RAM. >> > From my experience I have run XFCE in a virtual machine with only 4GB >> > RAM and one core and it is slow, but usable. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "sage-devel" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGUWgD9Y-HNCJNgB%2Bz1PeEO2S3xxk%2BHcxG35EORbPyrkrrGvXg%40mail.gmail.com. >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/ad127974-f279-459d-8631-bdd73b590b3en%40googlegroups.com.
